MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012

Today is Monday, January 30, the 30th day of 2012. There are 336 days left in the year.

1487 ― Bell chimes invented

1800 ― U.S. population 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9 percent)

1847 ― Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco

1917 ― First jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball)

1931 ― Charlie Chaplin's ``City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater

1937 ― Second of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov and 16 others sentenced to death

1939 ― Hitler calls for the extermination of Jews

1956 ― Martin Luther King Jr.'s home bombed

1969 ― Beatles perform their last gig together, a 42-minute free concert on the roof of Apple HQs

1993 ― 100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism and racism